A poem in memory of a boy whose death helped sparked the civil rights movement. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Louis Till was an African American lynched in 1955 for whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. Till's fate captured media attention when the men tried for his murder were acquitted

A sequence of fifteen interlinked sonnets pay tribute to a young man who sparked the Civil Rights Movement in 1955 Mississippi--fourteen-year-old Emmitt Till, an African-American boy who was lynched for whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted